A new Symbian trojan Doomboot.A detected

News posted July 1st, 2005 by eric
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A new Symbian trojan called Doomboot.A has been found. Doomboot.A is a trojan that drops Commwarrior.B on the phone and is able to disrupt phone functionality in a previously unknown way. It drops Symbian ETEL ROM binaries to the C:\ folder of the device. Doomboot.A is also the first malware that drops Commwarrior.B on the device. The ROM binaries cause the device to fail at the next boot and the device stays in an eternal reboot loop.

Note: I have never heard of any phone infection in the real life. Stay away of cracked application, don't install unknown SIS file you may receive by bluetooth/message without having requested them and your phone will be safe.


> A new Symbian trojan Doomboot.A detected

On July 6th, 2005 tOtE (not verified) said:
I found the following link on F-Secure's site.

> A new Symbian trojan Doomboot.A detected

On July 6th, 2005 eric said:

I repost your link as it do not show up in your message: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/arch...

Actually this article is mostly a copy-paste of a PR from them. But I do not want to advertize too much AV solution as I do not believe they are really useful nowadays due to the poor risk. Actually, I am even not sure I should post this kind of article....